We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, ESET and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"The way that the solution quickly updates to adjust to threats is the solution's most valuable aspect. When there's a security attack, within five minutes, all Wildfire subscribers have access to updates so that all systems will be safe. Its threat prevention is way better than other vendor products."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"The technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"It helps us with protection, with concurrent use of the VPN."
"It makes it a lot easier for us to maintain things. Prior to it, things were more difficult. This means less time on us. We can focus on other things. The recovery is more in man-hours for us than anything else."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"The initial configuration is straightforward thanks to the web GUI. In 30 minutes, you can have a running firewall with UTM protection enabled."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"The price could be better."
"High availability features are lacking."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"The initial setup may be difficult for those not familiar with the product."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
"There's an issue that when we deploy UTM on fiber, it automatically upgrades to the latest version without giving an option to stay on the current one."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Fortinet FortiSandbox, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls.
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